IS/ISO 5349 : Part 2 : 2001 Mechanical Vibration - Measurement and and Evaluation of Human Exposure to Hand Transmitted Vibration - Part 2 : Practical Guidance for Measurement at the Workplace

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2) (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 5349-2:2001 ‘Mechanical vibration — Measurement and evaluation of human exposure to hand-transmitted vibration — Part 2: Practical guidance for measurement at the workplace’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Mechanical Vibration and Shock Sectional Committee and approval of the Mechanical Engineering Division Council.

This standard was first published as 1S/1S0 5349:1986. Due to technical changes in ISO Standard, this standard also revised in two parts. Other part is as under:

Part 1 General requirements

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker in the International Standards, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.